Category: Sociology & Criminal Justice

   STELLAR Student profile: Ryan Jouett

STELLAR Student profile: Ryan Jouett

Senior Ryan Jouett hopes to help people better their lives as a probation officer someday. Photo courtesy of Jouett,
Senior sociology and criminal justice major, Ryan Jouett, said he believes most or many people who commit crimes deserve a second chance.
He attests that to being one of the reasons he is pursuing a career as a […]

Criminal justice professor’s collaborative research on human trafficking lands publication contract

Criminal justice professor’s collaborative research on human trafficking lands publication contract

Criminal justice professor Erin Heil's collaborative research with Andrea Nichols, Washington University Sociology and Criminal Justice professor, covers human trafficking locally. It will be published by Carolina Academic Press as a supplemental book to sociology college curriculum textbooks. Photo by Theresa San Luis
Sex trafficking can sometimes be confused with or overlap with prostitution. Labor trafficking […]

Dirks-Linhorst to present Going Lecture

Dirks-Linhorst to present Going Lecture

Article courtesy of the College of Arts & Sciences
Sociology and criminal justice professor Ann Dirks-Linhorst will present the Going Lecture for the College of Arts and Sciences Feb. 19. She will be joined by two panelists to present “Mentally Ill Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: What Do We Know, and How Do We Help?”
2013 […]

Frey-Spurlock lands fellowship to pursue sustainability at SIUE

Frey-Spurlock lands fellowship to pursue sustainability at SIUE

Professor Connie Frey-Spurlock landed the sustainability fellowship, the first among faculty at SIUE Photo Courtesy of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Marketing and Communications Department

Sociology professor Connie Frey-Spurlock was awarded the first sustainability fellowship at SIUE.

Frey-Spurlock will work across academic disciplines “to increase the awareness of sustainability among the faculty, foster the inclusion of sustainability […]

Professor Davis named a 2013 SIUE Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator

Professor Davis named a 2013 SIUE Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator

Writing her first book, “The Dubious Diagnosis: How Intersex Became a Disorder of Sex Development,” Georgiann Davis, assistant professor of SIUE Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, realized a necessary voice was missing from sociocultural scholarship on the topic: children’s voices.
Sociology and criminal justice professor Georgiann Davis
Looking forward, Davis was determined to fill this […]

Dirks-Linhorst’s mental health advocacy research lands her “Going Award”

Dirks-Linhorst’s mental health advocacy research lands her “Going Award”

SIUE’s Professor Ann Dirks-Linhorst’s Sociology and Criminal Justice research consists of “educating and removing the stigma associated with mental illness and seeing not just the diagnosis, but the person.”
2013 William and Margaret Professorship Award recipient, Prof. Ann Dirks-Linhorst
For such work, Dirks-Linhorst has received the 2013 William and Margaret Going Professorship Award. The SIUE award recognizes […]

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CAS Events Round Up

The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of […]

Davis Article Published by Ms. Magazine

Davis Article Published by Ms. Magazine

 
Last July SIUE Sociology faculty member Georgiann Davis had an article published in Ms. Magazine’s blog section. The article titled “Olympics’ New Hormone Regulations: Judged by How You Look,” was co-written by intersex activist Hida Viloria and discusses the ethical and scientific limitations to the 2012 Olympics’ sex testing policy.
Changes in sex testing policy were […]

Jorge Hernandez Martinez and Raul Rodriguez presenting at SIUE

US Cuba Relations before and Beyond the Cold War

Tuesday May 29, 2012 Jorge Hernandez Martinez and Raul Rodriguez gave a talk at SIUE about the history and politics of the United States relationship with Cuba titled “US Cuba Relations before and Beyond the Cold War.” Through the lecture the two University of Havana professors attempted to inform SIUE faculty and the public about […]

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney speaks to pre-law, students

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney speaks to pre-law, students

Jennifer Winfield. photo courtesy of CID St. Louis, MO.
SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Pre-Law program and Student Legal Services are co-sponsoring Jennifer Winfield, special assistant U.S. attorney from the eastern district of Mo. to speak to students at SIUE Wednesday, February 22. The event will take place at 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. […]

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